Part of analyzing data is extracting the data from the web into a useable format. Web scraping allows the user to bypass many of the formatting issues of simply copying and pasting from the web. One of the more interesting features is that each job, or agent, is saved to the Mozenda surver. This reduces storage space on the users PC. It also allows for the scheduling of running agents. This can be very useful for mining data from a website that is constantly changing. For example, if a person wanted to keep track of the price of all televisions on Ebay, a scheduled agent could keep an update file of these prices. In this tutorial, I show how to use some of the basic features of Mozenda.
Links:
Mozenda Website: http://www.mozenda.com/
Tutorials: http://www.mozenda.com/video01-overview
Data used in this video: http://espn.go.com/college-sports//football/recruiting/playerrankings/_/view/rn300/sort/rank/class/2013
what about other web scrapers?
ReplyDeleteI've used import.io, Octoparse and Content grabber. They are good...
ReplyDeleteTheir websites:
https://www.import.io/
http://www.octoparse.com/
http://contentgrabber.com/
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